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2014-03-05 Africa North
Whatever happened to “you can’t do this to me. I’m an American”?
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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-03-05 14:08|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ]  Top

#1 They didn’t know who Medea Benjamin was or they didn’t care. Why should they care? I think they did know who she is and that's why she was given the Bum's Rush. She found out she's not a Special Person.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-03-05 14:59||   2014-03-05 14:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Another reason to like Egypt
Posted by Frank G 2014-03-05 15:25||   2014-03-05 15:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Medea ought to consider what she votes for when she votes.
Posted by gorb 2014-03-05 15:29||   2014-03-05 15:29|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, Frank. I'm starting to feel better about Egypt's prospects for the future.

Question: does laughing at this make you a bad person?
Posted by SteveS 2014-03-05 15:31||   2014-03-05 15:31|| Front Page Top

#5 Was she hoping to support a communist government in Egypt? Or perhaps just the most anti-American one she could find?
Posted by rjschwarz 2014-03-05 15:32||   2014-03-05 15:32|| Front Page Top

#6 I forget where and what I read, but it was something about a circus troop gathering of troublemakers she was going to participate with.

Tweeting with a broken arm. Police didn't take her tweeter. Perhaps exaggerating a bit?

Stomping weasels, throwing diapers in the pin - I think I'm going to place my order for a Team Egypt jersey.
Posted by swksvolFF 2014-03-05 16:07||   2014-03-05 16:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Let's face it, Medea was born with three strikes given that she was named after a woman who killed her children and fed them to her husband.....unless of course her birth name was Moira and she chose the name Medea....
Posted by One Eyed Dark Lord of the Mongol Horde5358 2014-03-05 16:16||   2014-03-05 16:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Whatever happened to “you can’t do this to me. I’m an American”?

Among many other things this and this happened.

When the world's sole superpower goes mad and turns itself into a finlandized joke there are consequences. For individuals like Mrs Benjamin and for nations like Ukraine.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-03-05 16:16||   2014-03-05 16:16|| Front Page Top

#9 She was in Cairo to meet up with an international delegation before traveling to Gaza for a women’s conference. A women's conference in Gaza. That's about as welcome as Al Sharpton at a KKK conference. Probably a good thing for her she didn't make it to Gaza. They don't care who she is, either. Come to think of it, neither do I.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2014-03-05 16:18||   2014-03-05 16:18|| Front Page Top

#10 The lady's real name is Susan Benjamin not Moira.
Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2014-03-05 16:18||   2014-03-05 16:18|| Front Page Top

#11 Lady?

Woman?

Methings Egypt is getting really tired of terrorists and rabble-rousers. Team Egypt indeed.
Posted by CrazyFool 2014-03-05 16:37||   2014-03-05 16:37|| Front Page Top

#12 Wait, you mean this person exists and wasn't a Tyler Perry skit?
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2014-03-05 16:40||   2014-03-05 16:40|| Front Page Top

#13 It is time for the Obama administration to embrace reality and do what Putin did long ago and the rest of Russia’s reluctant neighbors are doing: Make two lists, one of your friends and the other of your enemies; support the first and torment the second. It might be distasteful to some, but it is the real world.

There are lists - they just don't cover anything outside national borders (except for you-know-where.)
Posted by Pappy 2014-03-05 17:28||   2014-03-05 17:28|| Front Page Top

#14 except for you-know-where

Hawaii? Indonesia?

Ohhhhhh. Yisrael. Got it...
Posted by M. Murcek 2014-03-05 18:45||   2014-03-05 18:45|| Front Page Top

#15 The article is so sad. It almost takes the pleasure out of hearing Miss Benjiman was brutally beaten. Almost.
Posted by regular joe 2014-03-05 18:58||   2014-03-05 18:58|| Front Page Top

#16 It devol into AL BUNDY > "I'M AN AMERICAN - I'M SORRY".
Posted by JosephMendiola 2014-03-05 19:05||   2014-03-05 19:05|| Front Page Top

#17 Ah, Medea - not every place is Berkeley. In fact, not even Berkeley is Berkeley. Which is why you and yours always have your protests in downtown San Francisco where the police are far more patient.
Posted by Secret Master 2014-03-05 20:09||   2014-03-05 20:09|| Front Page Top

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